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Good evening. Thanks for joining us. If you are traveling anytime soon, brace for possible impact.

By this time tomorrow night, you and many others could be grounded or have your flight

canceled or delayed thanks to the government shutdown and a shortage of air traffic controllers who've gone weeks now without pay.

They got zero dollar paycheck today and some finally have had it.

They're calling in sick or even quitting and the system is buckling under the strain.

In response, starting tomorrow, the administration is reducing the number of flights at 40 busy airports across the country. You see them there, including every single major hub and many, many more. First, by 4%, ramping up to 10% within days. Now, all day, one by one, the nation's biggest airlines have been announcing flight cancellations in anticipation. Hundreds by now, while back in Washington, lawmakers continued to grope their way toward

some kind of way out of what is now the longest government shutdown ever, with the holiday

traffic season fast approaching.

Our aviation correspondent Pete Montaigne is in Washington to start us off.

How big of a disruption do you think this is going to be?

And how did the FAA come to this number of 10 percent?

Well, we're talking about thousands of canceled flights, Anderson.

And the FAA just published this 15-page emergency order.

And in it, the Trump administration mandates that airlines slash flights if the government

shutdown does not end and air traffic controllers

continue working without pay here is the breakdown starting at 6 a.m tomorrow airlines will have to

cut 4% of their flights next tuesday 6% of flights next thursday 8% of flights and then next friday 10%

of flights that in essence makes Friday, 10% of flights. That, in essence, makes changes within

two weeks of one Thanksgiving would begin, and air traffic is expected to be huge. This is coming

with really sharp criticism for major airlines, which are huge economic drivers, and they're saying

that the Trump administration is essentially holding a gun to their heads, turning the travel pain of millions into political gain here. And frankly, no airline is really buying the

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